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Fantasite, v. 2, issue 5, whole 11, May-June 1943
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THE FANTASITE ..... 8 FAN SCRATCHINGS BY GORDON DICKSON HOW DO you like this guy Bronson? He packs up and goes to L.A. Not that we mind his leaving. Any guy can leave with our blessings if he throws us the kind of farewell party Phil threw. But this here Shamrock Kid has the gall, the unmitigated barefaced impudence to take Morrie Dollens with him. All right, Bronson, I can hear you way back here in Minneapolis, feebly protesting that we knew about it all along. So we did, but we understood that after a talk with Ollie, Morrie had seen the light. Moreover, if it wasn't a case of Dollensnapping, why weren't we informed of the hour and place of your departure until you were safely on your way? WELL?! Ah-ah--put down that pencil my friend.No one is sticking his comments in parentheses in our column and sticking an "Eds." at the end as if that made it all right. Go ahead and answer me if you want to--you've got a whole mag to do it in, but this column is to be furnished whole to the reader without censorings, cuts, or interjections. If I send you an issue of "Fan Scratchings" with doodlings on the margins, "Fan Scratchings" is coming out in Fantasite with every individual doodle--or else--Incidentally-- Ludowitz, old sprug, with regard to this "Eds." business. Stop reading "Fan Scratchings" right now and go hunt up the issue of Fantasite right before this one, Got it? Now open it to the 36th page--the last one inside the back cover--careful the back cover doesn't come off, mine did--now look down at the last two--no, the last three lines. "We wish to apologize to Tom Lud--.... The Editors." Now, Ludy, with a finger turn to the contents page. Does it say anything about editors? It does not! It mentions an Ed. and an Assoc. Ed. and a couple of Assts. Now when Phil wrote that apology he was hiding behind Brackney and us. Our strength is as the strength of tea because we drink pure beer and the same is true of Manse. Same, of course, is pure brain and must not be considered physically. So Bronson uses us Assts. to put the "s" on "Eds.". Therefore, L., know that it is Bronson and Bronson alone who has at last come forth with an apology under pressure. "And the lion shall lie down with the lamb", or words to that effect. M. Brackney in print is suddenly become so tame that a little child may feed him. When Manse received the November issue of Astounding through the mails he came raving over to us blasting sandstorms on Mars with every known law of science. Writing to Campbell, however, he is much more mild. I quote: "I wonder though, Mr. Campbell (writes the gentle Manson) about the continual sandstorms. According to astronomers (Manse is, of course, no astronomer himself, but a lover of accuracy) the atmosphere of Mars is VERY MUCH less dense than our own--approximately twenty per cent, I believe (Whaddya mean 'you believe'--you know damn well it's twenty per cent or you wouldn't have quoted the figure) Could such an astronomer be disturbed to such an extent..." (Listen, Manse, is Campbell the world's most renowned physicist, or does he suffer from a weak heart? You don't have to break the news to him gently. Cambell's a big boy now. Fans and Fanettes (I understand there are two or three of the latter scattered around this wide world of ours) allow me to present a few excerpts from my little Live Oak, Florida pal--incidentally, I wonder what he looks like. Quote: "Dear Messrs. Boggs and Bronson: the Great Science-Fiction Nivel (note the 'i'--put that pencil down Phil!) has already appeared. Have you ever read the Ark of Fire? Therefore, Boggs, I'll excuse your ignorance." Now here Ray makes two
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THE FANTASITE ..... 8 FAN SCRATCHINGS BY GORDON DICKSON HOW DO you like this guy Bronson? He packs up and goes to L.A. Not that we mind his leaving. Any guy can leave with our blessings if he throws us the kind of farewell party Phil threw. But this here Shamrock Kid has the gall, the unmitigated barefaced impudence to take Morrie Dollens with him. All right, Bronson, I can hear you way back here in Minneapolis, feebly protesting that we knew about it all along. So we did, but we understood that after a talk with Ollie, Morrie had seen the light. Moreover, if it wasn't a case of Dollensnapping, why weren't we informed of the hour and place of your departure until you were safely on your way? WELL?! Ah-ah--put down that pencil my friend.No one is sticking his comments in parentheses in our column and sticking an "Eds." at the end as if that made it all right. Go ahead and answer me if you want to--you've got a whole mag to do it in, but this column is to be furnished whole to the reader without censorings, cuts, or interjections. If I send you an issue of "Fan Scratchings" with doodlings on the margins, "Fan Scratchings" is coming out in Fantasite with every individual doodle--or else--Incidentally-- Ludowitz, old sprug, with regard to this "Eds." business. Stop reading "Fan Scratchings" right now and go hunt up the issue of Fantasite right before this one, Got it? Now open it to the 36th page--the last one inside the back cover--careful the back cover doesn't come off, mine did--now look down at the last two--no, the last three lines. "We wish to apologize to Tom Lud--.... The Editors." Now, Ludy, with a finger turn to the contents page. Does it say anything about editors? It does not! It mentions an Ed. and an Assoc. Ed. and a couple of Assts. Now when Phil wrote that apology he was hiding behind Brackney and us. Our strength is as the strength of tea because we drink pure beer and the same is true of Manse. Same, of course, is pure brain and must not be considered physically. So Bronson uses us Assts. to put the "s" on "Eds.". Therefore, L., know that it is Bronson and Bronson alone who has at last come forth with an apology under pressure. "And the lion shall lie down with the lamb", or words to that effect. M. Brackney in print is suddenly become so tame that a little child may feed him. When Manse received the November issue of Astounding through the mails he came raving over to us blasting sandstorms on Mars with every known law of science. Writing to Campbell, however, he is much more mild. I quote: "I wonder though, Mr. Campbell (writes the gentle Manson) about the continual sandstorms. According to astronomers (Manse is, of course, no astronomer himself, but a lover of accuracy) the atmosphere of Mars is VERY MUCH less dense than our own--approximately twenty per cent, I believe (Whaddya mean 'you believe'--you know damn well it's twenty per cent or you wouldn't have quoted the figure) Could such an astronomer be disturbed to such an extent..." (Listen, Manse, is Campbell the world's most renowned physicist, or does he suffer from a weak heart? You don't have to break the news to him gently. Cambell's a big boy now. Fans and Fanettes (I understand there are two or three of the latter scattered around this wide world of ours) allow me to present a few excerpts from my little Live Oak, Florida pal--incidentally, I wonder what he looks like. Quote: "Dear Messrs. Boggs and Bronson: the Great Science-Fiction Nivel (note the 'i'--put that pencil down Phil!) has already appeared. Have you ever read the Ark of Fire? Therefore, Boggs, I'll excuse your ignorance." Now here Ray makes two
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